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3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(688 total reviews)
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Ayman Antoun

42% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

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2.0
Aug 5, 2024
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Pros

They will give you a competitive salary when you are new to the company. They offer a month long paid boot camp. FLM's support your career goals. They encourage you to use all your vacation leaves(paid leaves). Benefits other than the salary is great. Possibly even the best out there.

Cons

You will be competing with your salary after just year with the current state of the economy as the annual increase is negligible(~2.5% per year increase on average). You'll be doing 5 roles for the pay of 1. The use a proprietary software so don't get too comfortable or you'll be stuck there. There are only a handful of team with a great culture. Mandatory 3x a week onsite. 5days a week if your still in probationary period(1st 6mos.)

1.0
Aug 5, 2024

Worst

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Pros

No Pros whatsoever for even the most loyal employees

Cons

No raises for 2 years Acquire and Fire Bad Culture

1.0
Aug 3, 2024

0 out of 10 would not recommend

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Pros

- Some nice people on the ground - The attempts at ”attracting gen Z”, rebranding and positioning themselves as a cutting edge software company are so bad that it’s actually funny. Brought me some good laughs over the years and probably made me hold out a bit longer than I would have.

Cons

- CEO/CTO is like a dictator from a bad movie. It’s like a parody. - No one outside of CEO/CTO has any mandate to make decisions, so even small things take forever as they need his/one if his puppets approval. - Work/life balance is non existant, especially for a european working with US - Unclear career path. Multiple people, myself included, got ”promoted”, meaning we got put into whole new roles while keeping our old responsibilities and direct reports with no pay increase. When questioned, ”That’s how it works at OpenText”. - Lots of layoffs, very frequent, and no backfilling. Ever. - Terrible culture, like really bad. Because of the pressure from above to deliver results despite less budget and less team members and despite huge organizational changes that disrupts all processes, everyone is flooded with work. This causes more micro management, a culture of blaming each other to make sure your a** isn’t on the line and just a high stress situation that doesn’t allow for great work to be done. You’re basically scrambling to get anything out the door before the deadline, which strangely is always ”before end of day” or ”this week”.

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